"When I started off riding, you dream about……" — Tony McCoy
"When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal."
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23 Quotes by Tony McCoy
Tony McCoy has 23 quotes on this site.
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When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has…
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You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.
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When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.
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You always get a buzz from winning. Winning is... everything.
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My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and…
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I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey.
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No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can…
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If I go racing tomorrow and I have five rides that all get beaten, all I want to do is…
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Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared…
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It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to…
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I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having…
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There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in…
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More Champion Quotes
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
— Roger Bannister
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One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the…
— Mortimer Adler
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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
— Ken Blanchard
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a…
— Usain Bolt
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
— Usain Bolt
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
— Bear Bryant
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We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
— Eric Cantona
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But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors…
— Donald Cargill
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life…
— Muhammad Ali
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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
— Jimmy Carter
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
— Chris Evert
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